Globalize liberation

By: David Solnit

Globalize liberation: how to uproot the system and build a better world

“…Globalize Liberation is a manual, encyclopedia, and primary text for the global justice movement… If there were a required 101 class in anti-capitalism, this book would be central to the reading list.” – Fifth Estate

“…Globalize Liberation is a diagnosis, prescription, and the evidence of wellness in many small and large instances around the world. If you want to make change, this will set you on your way with strategy (because it “counters despair and fosters vision”), tactics, and abundant creative inspiration like “fire in dry grass.” – Clamor Magazine

“From identifying global problems of class struggle, racism, discrimination, and extreme concentration of power, to putting ideas in action whether in America, Argentenia, Scotland, or other nations around the world, Globalize Liberation offers a crucial glimpse into what is needed to shape the future of humanity for the
better.” – Midwest Book Review

“Globalize Liberation makes an important contribution to our understanding of the new left by documenting the social movements of the last ten years and providing suggestions and commentary about their future. In doing so it makes the ‘laboratory of resistance’ more accessible and easy to understand.” – Hopedance

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Testimonials

Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

2014-04-16T10:39:45+00:00

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

http://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/302161/

Michael Albert, ‘The trajectory of change’

Short term, we raise the costs until elites agree to implement our demands or end policies we oppose. Longer term we accumulate support and develop movement infrastructure and alternative institutions while working towards transforming society's defining relations.

2014-03-30T09:07:42+00:00

Short term, we raise the costs until elites agree to implement our demands or end policies we oppose. Longer term we accumulate support and develop movement infrastructure and alternative institutions while working towards transforming society’s defining relations.

Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or the weak... Nonviolence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

2014-03-30T08:37:27+00:00

Nonviolence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or the weak… Nonviolence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

http://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/cesar-chavez/

Francesca Cancian, 1993

Activist research 'aims at challenging inequality by empowering the powerless, exposing inequalities in the status quo and promoting social changes that equalise the distribution of resources.'

2014-03-30T08:38:50+00:00

Activist research ‘aims at challenging inequality by empowering the powerless, exposing inequalities in the status quo and promoting social changes that equalise the distribution of resources.’

http://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/francesca-cancian-1993/

Saul Alinsky

As long as you feel powerless and unable to do anything about [your problems], all you have is a bad scene. The people resign themselves to a rationalization: it’s that kind of world; it’s a crumby world; we didn’t ask to come into it but we are stuck with it and all we can do is hope that something happens somewhere, somehow, sometime.

This is what is usually taken as apathy.

2014-05-19T15:18:01+00:00

As long as you feel powerless and unable to do anything about [your problems], all you have is a bad scene. The people resign themselves to a rationalization: it’s that kind of world; it’s a crumby world; we didn’t ask to come into it but we are stuck with it and all we can do...

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